In short, for once, the good Squire's mansion might have been taken as a good specimen of one of the Rantipole establishments of the good old feudal times.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The Locrians, too, being freed from all incitement to litigation, lived very lovingly together, and were so happy a people that they make scarce any figure in history; it being only your litigatous, quarrelsome, Rantipole nations who make much noise in the world.
"Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete"
Washington Irving
This Rantipole colony, founded by Lord Baltimore, a British nobleman, was managed by his agent, a swaggering Englishman, commonly called Fendall, that is to say, "offend all," a name given him for his bullying propensities.
"Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete"
Washington Irving